PM Lee will be delivering his National Day Rally at ITE Central on Sunday.
SINGAPORE — Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that he will be talking about global warming and rising sea levels, as well as how Singapore should respond to these climate changes, in his National Day Rally speech on Sunday .
“Global warming and rising sea levels are existential threats to the world,” he wrote. “We must treat climate change very seriously. As a low-lying island, Singapore is particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels. I will be talking about how we must respond to this at the National Day Rally.” He wrote, “It shows the projected further warming from now till 2100. If you pick the chart for Singapore, in the worst-case, temperatures for July will rise from 27.8°C now to 31.1°C by 2100.“Today, we are already hitting daytime highs of 32°C and even 34°C, so by 2100 Singapore could see 37°C days!”
“Singapore will not be immune to these global problems... We must get ourselves ready for a very different future,” he said.“Throughout our history, when trials and tribulations have beset us, we picked ourselves up, and worked together to overcome them. Each time the world changed, we were able to survive,” he said.
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